Create a Lasting Power of Attorney for personal welfare to
ensure you have your say on the things that matter. Includes
the government form and Net Lawman guidance notes
About this document
This is lasting power of attorney document, regulated by the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Do not confuse it with an ordinary power of attorney, or an enduring power of attorney, the latter of which is invalid as of 1st October 2007.
There two different types of LPA available to individuals who wish to make provision for the future: This document for personal welfare and a separate document for property and affairs, linked at the end of this page.
This LPA document allows you to choose someone to make decisions on your behalf relating to your personal healthcare and welfare. This includes decisions to give or refuse consent to treatment on your behalf, or about where you live. Unlike an LPA for property and affairs, these decisions can only be taken on your behalf when the LPA has been registered and you lack the capacity to make the necessary decision for yourself.
Most people will need one, because medical science is better at preserving our bodies than our brains.
How it works: you complete the document, in the exact form laid down in the act. Precise instructions are provided with the document. You or your attorney(s) then keep the document until needed. When needed, the Attorney should register it with the Public Guardianship Office. At any time before then, you can revoke it.
Once registered, your attorney(s) can deal with your affairs in the ways you have allowed in the document.
Anyone can draw up a Lasting Power of Attorney document at any time. Once the document has been drawn up, it can be put away until the time comes to register it. Registration should take place when the attorney believes the donor is, or is becoming, unable to manage their own affairs, or when the donor specifies otherwise. If the former, the attorney is then under a legal duty to get the LPA document registered as soon as possible.
Use this document as “insurance”. Put arrangements in place now in case you are unable to manage your affairs yourself later. Use when you would like someone (the attorney) to act on your behalf with regard to your personal health and welfare.
The benefit of having a power of attorney ‘lined up’ is so that you are satisfied that your finances and personal life will be dealt with in a satisfactory manner if you yourself are unable to make the necessary arrangements.
Application
and features
Suitable for anyone who wishes to appoint their children, or other person(s) to handle their affairs when they are no longer able to do so for themselves
Can be made at any age as ‘insurance’
Cancel it or change it later if you wish
Easy to use, small investment, lifelong results
Comprehensive explanatory notes to help you complete the document
Contents
Details about where and how to register the LPA
How to make a lasting power of attorney
Notes on how to complete the form
How to apply to register the LPA
The LPA form including explanatory notes
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This document is drawn and maintained by Net Lawman. It is real law in plain English.
